Press Conference

Presentation of the first edition of Rural Design Week

Towards a Critical Rurality

Iain Chambers and Marco Scotini present the international exhibition

Wake

In Alves’ artistic practice she is interested in hidden or marginalized narratives that are not part of official histories. In such works as Seeds of Change, Alves investigated seeds that came accidentally with ballast material such as rocks, sand or earth in the holds of ships. The seeds contained in ballast soil may germinate and grow, potentially bearing witness to a far more complex narrative of world history than is usually presented by orthodox accounts. The work Wake, is a research based investigation of the history of the soil of a site as it reflects the ecological possibilities of the site—extending and integrating other possible events such animals, wind, people, transport, trade and any other accidents of history and situations, which normally would not be part of a botanical study. The artist is concerned with how official accounts of history fail to account for, and even work to erase local knowledge and experiences. Alves says, “Art by contrast has the potential to reclaim such narratives to contemporary social realities.

Forms of artistic intervention in the rural and how to contribute to a sustainable rural development process

Starting from a direct approach to the space we inhabit, a first approach to San Potito is conducted, looking to ecological, social and economical aspects. This form of collective walk will take the village and its surroundings as case study to think and practice on different forms and perspectives to look and elaborate on past, present and future landscapes, and potential cultural strategies on them.

From Art Village to Archiving

About 15 years have passed since the creation of the "Village of Art" which together with "Urban Node" constituted the program of interventions called "paeSEsaggio - Matese Action". The Viennese collective Feld 72 was one of the architects of that season with the construction of the "Million Donkey Hotel" in Prata Sannita. After several years from that season and with a different awareness, Michael Obrist (Feld 72) and Mario Festa (one of the creators of the “paeSEsaggio - Matese Action” program and today President of the Ru.De.Ri Association) intend to re-tie the threads of that experience starting from one of the most significant places in the Matese area: Piedimonte Matese. This "city" still preserves the traces of a complex urban system and a territory - divided into a network of walled gardens, ecological corridors, natural infrastructures (mountain, water, plain), anthropic, technological as well as socio-cultural "flows" and socioeconomic - which could serve as a reference, for Italy and the rest of the world, as "natural and relational architecture articulated on the basic theme of biodiversity". For several years now, mutability and hybridity have characterized the formation of contemporary spaces, whether they are "urban", "peripheral", "natural", and it seems we are inaugurating an urbanity that we could define "ecosystem". This ecosystem is characterized neither by the concentration of heavy resources nor by the intensive building, but rather for the presence of “places-nodes”, where cultural exchange takes place and the strengthening of ties between local productive systems and international markets, effectively supported by the grafting of new communication technologies such as infrastructures, is able to produce new levels of sociality, collaborative networks and innovative economic activities. From these considerations, in 2018 the project “INVENTARIO (Archiving) - Creative mapping (and collective) of the Matese landscape" was conceived by the Ru.De.Ri. to deconstruct (and re-define) concepts and devices taken for granted. In the collective imagination the Matese, like most of Southern Italy, is a margin. But the margin is also an occasion, the promised land of pioneers and explorers, and a cultural device. Then, through INVENTARIO (Archiving), what we have set for ourselves is to explore this margin and start a process of investigation and mapping that can lead to the creation of a new type of land registry, as a base from which to start facilitating territorial regeneration processes on the Matese. This collective construction of open and distributed land registers that also contain traces of the emotional component linked to immovable property, as well as imaginaries and imagination that shape them, seemed to us an endeavour that could no longer be postponed in order to act a different perspective and an intention, and to bring out, together with the objective characteristics, the difficulties and the contradictions, also the potential of the resources - (re) known and not - of a territory.

The SWAMP Pavillion

Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas are the founders of Urbonas Studio. An interdisciplinary research group involved in supporting the reclamation of public spaces, Urbonas Studio's projects focus on stimulating the cultural and political consciousness, with a particular emphasis on rediscovering significant figures in the field of militant environmentalism and key political protagonists. Their work is therefore designed to facilitate social change, by drawing on and combining various media, networks and participative technologies, sensorial methods and public spaces (with the collaboration of experts in various disciplinary fields). Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas organise educational tours through urban spaces: involving experimentation, experience and action.
 During the RDW2019 Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas will hold a workshop to share their methodologies of working with local ecosystems and to give an overview of several projects that represent the turn towards the “new environmentalism”, as they call it. Namely, the ‘Uto-Pia’, a project that works with experimental media (sheep milk cheese production in particular) and communication techniques to map heterotopias - remote and disconnected places that at the same time are very connected and next to us; ‘Folk Stone Power Plant’ a project that was conceived as a networked entity involving international team of scientists, the locality and the outreach program to actively learn about physics and metaphysics of alternative energy; and finally the ‘Swamp School’ – a new learning environment, open-ended and ever-changing infrastructure that supports collaborative experiments in design, pedagogy, and artistic intelligence for learning and adapting to imminent unknowns.

Farming Films

Presentation by Marco Scotini & Andris Brinkmanis + Projections of: - Chaco (2017) 106 min Daniele Incalcaterra e Fausta Quattrini Every day 2000 hectares of forest are destroyed in the Paraguayan Chaco. After “El Impenetrable” (2012), the director Daniele Incalcaterra, with the co-director Fausta Quattrini, once again exhibits the stakes and problems relating to the 5,000 hectares of virgin forest of the Chaco inherited from his father. Incalcaterra stubbornly seeks to return this land to the Guarani-Ñandevas, the legitimate owners of the forest, and prevent a deforestation project for the industrial production of transgenic soy and meat. But some people don't appreciate his action - Diothio Dhep (2004) 2.35 min Maria Thereza Alves Moussa Gueye, a local high school student, whom Alves met in the countryside, decided to act as her guide. One day on the way back home, he explained about a small island that they were passing just by the side of the road. ‘Diothio Dhep’ means in the Serere language, ‘the small cemetery’, where respected animals such as cows, horses, donkeys and dogs are placed. But, Moussa explained it had fallen into disuse. When Alves asked him why, he said that his generation had forgotten the tradition. One of the results was that these dead animals were being dumped in the sea thereby contaminating the water used for washing clothes. - Seeds of Change (2009) 12 min Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change is an ongoing investigation by Alves on ballast flora in the port cities of Europe. Material such as stones, earth, sand, wood, bricks and whatever else was economically expedient was used as ballast to stabilise merchant sailing ships according to the weight of the cargo. Upon arrival in port, the ballast was unloaded, carrying with it seeds native to the area where it had been collected. The source of these seeds can be any of the ports and regions (and their regional trading partners), involved in trade with Marseilles. Alves, researched the archives in Marseilles to determine where ballast was unloaded. She then took earth samples from these sites and potted the soil so that the ballast seeds could germinate.

Poetic Residence “Nzierto",

The Poetic Residence is an experiment of artistic-cultural contamination that will involve both the indigenous community fabric, plastic representation of a model of life on which we try to relight the spotlight, as well as an external artistic-laboratory look, which will lead to a final "Poetry Slam", atypical Slam, which will be themed for the occasion. The name "’ Nzierto "recalls the insert, a word that in the rural and peasant world defines that practice apt to tie together different plants to create new ones. In detail, the Poets and Poetesses will live in the place chosen for the Rural Design Week, for 3 days, in this way they will have the opportunity to observe, learn, compare and acquire stories, experiences and suggestions that will lead them to dramatize, in a poetic-performative key, the "rural question". The Residence will therefore be a free space where the poetics will become a discussion and will connect with the time available for what concerns the production. The Residence is intended primarily as a place of thought, study, research and experimentation in the times and ways in which artists have faculties and needs. We will experience "artistic geographies", in a landscape where the eye opens to dialogue and to meet the inhabitants and the territory of San Potito Sannitico, in this part of the Matese National Park where the traces in the memory of its inhabitants will become matter poetically shaped. Crossings, migrations, landings, the times of Nature, the Anthropization, the Morphology, the Rurality, all questions that each artist will face in a space in which he has time to stay, study, meet, meet and generate "other value". A way to generate a temporary climate and contextually set ideas in an apparently immobile but constantly changing context. The Residence will end with a meeting between Poets and the Public for a "verification" of their own research, an act calibrated to generate and exchange vital energy! Sunday 2 June: From 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM: “Discovery - Connection” (Discover the territory) From 5:00 to 7:00 PM: “Creation -Production” (Think and Elaborate) From 7:00 PM onwards: “Debate - Share” (Analyze and Perfect) ARTISTI SIMONE SAVOGIN from Alserio Poet, 3 times Poetry Slam National Champion – Contestant at “Italia’s got talent” GIULIANO DE SANTIS from Bari Poet founder of poetic union “Slammals” e Poetry Slam Apulian Champion MATTEO DI GENOVA da L’Aquila Poet and Performer, winner of “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia con Musica” in 2017. TOI GIORDANI from Bologna Poet, Visual Artist and multi-instrumentalist, winner of “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia con Musica” in 2018 with the “Mezzoopalco” project FRANCESCA MAZZONI from Benevento Poetess, Founder of the “Caspar Campania Slam Poetry” union, LIPS Lega Italiana Poetry Slam Ex-Coordinator and national finalist SASA SASA – Visual Poet from Naples BIODPI - Street Artist from Benevento

Straw Landscapes

During the workshop a wall in straw bales will be built with greb technique and plaster putty-lime based. FIRST DAY: notes on the construction technique, advantages disadvantages, durability, placement in the contemporary architectural technical panorama, construction of the foundation structure. SECOND DAY: construction of the structure in light wood consisting of rough strips assembled with screws, first insertion of the bales. THIRD DAY: completion of the wall of straw bales and laying of plaster in slaked lime on a wattle mat. The wall with a window on the Matese landscape not only tells the capacity of perishable waste materials derived from the agricultural activity to transform itself into high-performance structures for architecture, but also represents the possibility of transforming the gaze of the world towards itself. To register to this workshop send an email to: workshop@ruraldesignweek.com or call +39 338 3554119 (Melania)

Poetic residence "Nzierto"

The Poetic Residence is an experiment of artistic-cultural contamination that will involve both the indigenous community fabric, plastic representation of a model of life on which we try to relight the spotlight, as well as an external artistic-laboratory look, which will lead to a final "Poetry Slam", atypical Slam, which will be themed for the occasion. The name "’ Nzierto "recalls the insert, a word that in the rural and peasant world defines that practice apt to tie together different plants to create new ones. In detail, the Poets and Poetesses will live in the place chosen for the Rural Design Week, for 3 days, in this way they will have the opportunity to observe, learn, compare and acquire stories, experiences and suggestions that will lead them to dramatize, in a poetic-performative key, the "rural question". The Residence will therefore be a free space where the poetics will become a discussion and will connect with the time available for what concerns the production. The Residence is intended primarily as a place of thought, study, research and experimentation in the times and ways in which artists have faculties and needs. We will experience "artistic geographies", in a landscape where the eye opens to dialogue and to meet the inhabitants and the territory of San Potito Sannitico, in this part of the Matese National Park where the traces in the memory of its inhabitants will become matter poetically shaped. Crossings, migrations, landings, the times of Nature, the Anthropization, the Morphology, the Rurality, all questions that each artist will face in a space in which he has time to stay, study, meet, meet and generate "other value". A way to generate a temporary climate and contextually set ideas in an apparently immobile but constantly changing context. The Residence will end with a meeting between Poets and the Public for a "verification" of their own research, an act calibrated to generate and exchange vital energy! Monday 3 June: From 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM: “Discovery - Connection” (Discover the territory) From 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM: “Creation -Production” (Think and Elaborate) From 6:30 PM onwards: “Debate - Share” (Analyze and Perfect) ARTISTI SIMONE SAVOGIN from Alserio Poet, 3 times Poetry Slam National Champion – Contestant at “Italia’s got talent” GIULIANO DE SANTIS from Bari Poet founder of poetic union “Slammals” e Poetry Slam Apulian Champion MATTEO DI GENOVA da L’Aquila Poet and Performer, winner of “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia con Musica” in 2017. TOI GIORDANI from Bologna Poet, Visual Artist and multi-instrumentalist, winner of “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia con Musica” in 2018 with the “Mezzoopalco” project FRANCESCA MAZZONI from Benevento Poetess, Founder of the “Caspar Campania Slam Poetry” union, LIPS Lega Italiana Poetry Slam Ex-Coordinator and national finalist SASA SASA – Visual Poet from Naples BIODPI - Street Artist from Benevento

Straw Landscapes

During the workshop a wall in straw bales will be built with greb technique and plaster putty-lime based. FIRST DAY: notes on the construction technique, advantages disadvantages, durability, placement in the contemporary architectural technical panorama, construction of the foundation structure. SECOND DAY: construction of the structure in light wood consisting of rough strips assembled with screws, first insertion of the bales. THIRD DAY: completion of the wall of straw bales and laying of plaster in slaked lime on a wattle mat. The wall with a window on the Matese landscape not only tells the capacity of perishable waste materials derived from the agricultural activity to transform itself into high-performance structures for architecture, but also represents the possibility of transforming the gaze of the world towards itself.

Rural design explained to kids

The workshop - run by Giuseppina Lavorgna (Ru.De.Ri association) - will offer to 3rd grade primary school children basic knowledge about circular economy through the transformation and reuse of production waste and natural material. This will allow children to understand how an object, initially considered waste, can instead be a source of nourishment or used for other functions. These processes will be tested through horticulture, a simple activity that will give the opportunity to learn about and grow vegetables and plants by interacting with the surrounding environment, but also to understand the effect of our actions on the environment and to develop an environmental awareness based on the respect and on the conscious and parsimonious use of the resources of the territory. Children will also have the opportunity to "experience" the concept of beauty, since a disfigured, dirty and abandoned territory will not be able to offer the conditions necessary for the growth of the plants useful for our survival. Practicing horticulture will develop a sense of responsibility and respect for what surrounds us and for those who live and build the landscape.

Rural Slam Poetry: final act of the poetic residence “Nzierto"

The Poetic Residence is an experiment of artistic-cultural contamination that will involve both the indigenous community fabric, plastic representation of a model of life on which we try to relight the spotlight, as well as an external artistic-laboratory look, which will lead to a final "Poetry Slam", atypical Slam, which will be themed for the occasion. The name "’ Nzierto "recalls the insert, a word that in the rural and peasant world defines that practice apt to tie together different plants to create new ones. In detail, the Poets and Poetesses will live in the place chosen for the Rural Design Week, for 3 days, in this way they will have the opportunity to observe, learn, compare and acquire stories, experiences and suggestions that will lead them to dramatize, in a poetic-performative key, the "rural question". The Residence will therefore be a free space where the poetics will become a discussion and will connect with the time available for what concerns the production. The Residence is intended primarily as a place of thought, study, research and experimentation in the times and ways in which artists have faculties and needs. We will experience "artistic geographies", in a landscape where the eye opens to dialogue and to meet the inhabitants and the territory of San Potito Sannitico, in this part of the Matese National Park where the traces in the memory of its inhabitants will become matter poetically shaped. Crossings, migrations, landings, the times of Nature, the Anthropization, the Morphology, the Rurality, all questions that each artist will face in a space in which he has time to stay, study, meet, meet and generate "other value". A way to generate a temporary climate and contextually set ideas in an apparently immobile but constantly changing context. The Residence will end with a meeting between Poets and the Public for a "verification" of their own research, an act calibrated to generate and exchange vital energy! Tuesday 4 June: From 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM: “Details” (Let’s Contaminate and Finish. In collaboration with Biodpi and Sasa Sasa) From 6:00 PM onwards: Rural Poetry Slam (Public Presentation) ARTISTI SIMONE SAVOGIN from Alserio Poet, 3 times Poetry Slam National Champion – Contestant at “Italia’s got talent” GIULIANO DE SANTIS from Bari Poet founder of poetic union “Slammals” e Poetry Slam Apulian Champion MATTEO DI GENOVA da L’Aquila Poet and Performer, winner of “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia con Musica” in 2017. TOI GIORDANI from Bologna Poet, Visual Artist and multi-instrumentalist, winner of “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia con Musica” in 2018 with the “Mezzoopalco” project FRANCESCA MAZZONI from Benevento Poetess, Founder of the “Caspar Campania Slam Poetry” union, LIPS Lega Italiana Poetry Slam Ex-Coordinator and national finalist SASA SASA – Visual Poet from Naples BIODPI - Street Artist from Benevento

Straw Landscapes

During the workshop a wall in straw bales will be built with greb technique and plaster putty-lime based. FIRST DAY: notes on the construction technique, advantages disadvantages, durability, placement in the contemporary architectural technical panorama, construction of the foundation structure. SECOND DAY: construction of the structure in light wood consisting of rough strips assembled with screws, first insertion of the bales. THIRD DAY: completion of the wall of straw bales and laying of plaster in slaked lime on a wattle mat. The wall with a window on the Matese landscape not only tells the capacity of perishable waste materials derived from the agricultural activity to transform itself into high-performance structures for architecture, but also represents the possibility of transforming the gaze of the world towards itself.

How to Reproduce Microorganisms

The workshop - run by Alfonso Melillo (Ru.De.Ri association) - is addressed to farmers, horticulturists, students and biodynamic agriculture enthusiasts wishing to learn holistic soil regeneration techniques. After an overview of the microbial origin of human life, the methods of self-production of Effective Microorganisms will be discussed in a more detailed and practical way. In particular, the EMbio method for agriculture and environmental remediation will be illustrated, then it will follow the reproduction, by activation and subsequent fermentation of EM stock solution and sugar cane molasses to obtain EM-a, an activated solution of effective microorganisms. This workshop is realized thanks to the support and collaboration of EMbio (https://embio.it). To register to this workshop send an email to: workshop@ruraldesignweek.com or call +39 338 3554119 (Melania)

Farming Films

Straw Landscapes

During the workshop a wall in straw bales will be built with greb technique and plaster putty-lime based. FIRST DAY: notes on the construction technique, advantages disadvantages, durability, placement in the contemporary architectural technical panorama, construction of the foundation structure. SECOND DAY: construction of the structure in light wood consisting of rough strips assembled with screws, first insertion of the bales. THIRD DAY: completion of the wall of straw bales and laying of plaster in slaked lime on a wattle mat. The wall with a window on the Matese landscape not only tells the capacity of perishable waste materials derived from the agricultural activity to transform itself into high-performance structures for architecture, but also represents the possibility of transforming the gaze of the world towards itself. To register to this workshop send an email to: workshop@ruraldesignweek.com or call +39 338 3554119 (Melania)

Marsh reeds and construction techniques for vegetal architecture

During the workshop a micro-architecture in Arundo donax canes will be realized where construction techniques with ligatures and joints will be applied. Connection and stiffening systems, infill and roofing with a single material will be experimented. The purpose of the laboratory is learning by doing in order to allow participants to proceed independently with all the phases. The botanical and silvicultural aspects will be understood to better use this plant before becoming a building material. To register to this workshop send an email to: workshop@ruraldesignweek.com or call +39 338 3554119 (Melania)

Presentation of the documentary “Acque Comuni: festival itinerante lungo i fiumi” (in progress) by Walter Ronzani and Andrea Colbacchini

On the way (and on a rubber boat) from Santorso to Vicenza following the Timonchio, Bacchiglione and Astichello waterways. A caravan for water. A path of research, rediscovery and sharing. From 27 to 30 September 2018 a caravan of local administrators and experts (a geographer, an artist, a climatologist, a poet, an engineer, a historian, a teacher, an environmentalist) followed the course of the Timonchio stream and the river Bacchiglione. Acque Comuni is a caravan on the way, a research path, but also an itinerant festival along the rivers that wanted to offer to the communities encountered and all the participants, a series of events to learn, discover, explore and have fun. Acque Comuni was born from the national partnership network Paesi dell’Acqua (towns of water) and was built hrough a shared path that involved Viacqua, the Municipal Administrations and a series of local realities operating in the environmental, educational, social and cultural fields. Acque Comuni is an ambitious initiative, but aware of the fact that real changes start from small gestures. It is no coincidence that the caravan has chosen a humble and natural gesture such as walking: a tribute to slowness, to the possibility of dialogue and confrontation. And walking, the caravan went to rediscover the signs, memories and actuality of a civilization arose historically along those liquid arteries that for several centuries have fertilized cities and countryside. At the same time this initiative has worked to develop a new gaze based on the awareness of water as a common good, a factor of well-being and relationship. Collective and participatory action to contribute to a virtuous and forward-looking government of water resources. Finally, Acque Comuni is an invitation to return to visit the rivers, to regain contact with the water element, because we are convinced that this rediscovered attitude can lead to important processes of redevelopment and territorial regeneration, together with a renewed sense of citizenship.

PRACTICES AND PROCESSES OF ECOSYSTEMIC REGENERATION OF RURAL AREAS

Session: Bioeconomy and integrated sustainable supply chains Introduced and moderated by: Filippo Tantillo, scientific coordinator of the support team at Comitato Nazionale per le Aree Interne (SNAI) • Ecosystemic services, bioeconomy and local development (Davide Marino – Department of Bioscience and Territory, University of Molise, Enogastronomic Sciences and Culture, Roma Tre) • Biomass from agricultural and agro-industrial waste for a green chemistry at the service of the territory, Mario Malinconico (Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials Institute, Ipcb-Cnr, Pozzuoli, Naples) • The potential of agricultural residues in innovative and sustainable supply chains of colour (Enrica De Falco University of Salerno, Naturalmente Colore srls) • Waste/scapes: collaborative decision-making processes for the regeneration of waste areas. The case of REPAiR project (Maria Cerreta, Department of Architecture - DiARC, University of Naples) • Sustainable zootechnics in Campania: the contribution of Ri-Agri and SOSAgri projects (Salvatore Faugno and Stefania Pindozzi, Department of Agriculture, Federico II University, Naples) • The Novamont model of bioeconomy and the role of the Research Centre (Maria Dani, Supervisor of the Research Centre of Piana di Monte Verna) • The biotech house (Domenico Liotto, ATI Biotech Co-founder) • Manifesto of the beauty of the rural landscape: Sustainability and good practices for the enhancement of rural areas (Carmine Nardone, President at Futuridea) Conclusions: Serenella Sala (Scientific officer, Joint Research Centre of European Commission)

Marsh reeds and construction techniques for vegetal architecture

During the workshop a micro-architecture in Arundo donax canes will be realized where construction techniques with ligatures and joints will be applied. Connection and stiffening systems, infill and roofing with a single material will be experimented. The purpose of the laboratory is learning by doing in order to allow participants to proceed independently with all the phases. The botanical and silvicultural aspects will be understood to better use this plant before becoming a building material.

Marsh reeds and construction techniques for vegetal architecture

During the workshop a micro-architecture in Arundo donax canes will be realized where construction techniques with ligatures and joints will be applied. Connection and stiffening systems, infill and roofing with a single material will be experimented. The purpose of the laboratory is learning by doing in order to allow participants to proceed independently with all the phases. The botanical and silvicultural aspects will be understood to better use this plant before becoming a building material.

PRACTICES AND PROCESSES OF ECOSYSTEMIC REGENERATION OF RURAL AREAS

Session: Strategies of territorial aggregation Introduced by Tommaso dal Bosco (ANCI – in charge of SiBaTer project) Moderated by Marco De Gaetano (Xscape Association) • Advanced services research center for rural innovation (Rosetta Alberto and Massimo Fotino, General Director and Strategic Director at CRISEA) • Resilient Madonie: Future laboratory / pilot project Strategies for Internal Areas (Mario Cicero, Mayor of Castelbuono and National Vice President of Rete dei Borghi Autentici) • The Food & Energy Hub of Lombardore. Proposal to re-use former military barracks (Luciana Mellano, Municipality of Lombardore, Torino) • Enhancement of public land heritage for agro-forestry-pastoral use (Andrea Cirillo, Municipalities of Gioi, Moio della Civitella, Orria, Perito and Salento (SA) • Communicating vessels: the network of water villages (Marco Iamiceli, GAL Titerno Alto Tammaro Coordination Office) • The communities of the Slow Food network (Gaetano Pascale, Slow Food National Advisor) • "Zero" emissions Eco-Bio Factory: Eco-sustainable re-use of the former company Gezoov in San Potito Sannitico (Francesco Imperadore, Mayor of San Potito Sannitico and Mario Festa, President of Ru.De.Ri) Conclusions: Tommaso dal Bosco (ANCI - in charge of SiBaTer project)

Naturalmente colore: how to produce natural colours with agricultural waste

Reading “The outrage and the wind” and screening of the documentary “A certain idea of Park”

“The outrage and the wind” by Angelo Turco, with Maria Pia Selvaggio, Pino Fappiano and Bruna Varrone, followed by the screening of the documentary “A certain idea of Park” by Giulio Ciarambino. A night about communities and parks, from Matese to the outskirts of Milan. In the outskirts of Milan, just eight kilometers from Piazza Duomo, the Campazzo farmhouse still has a thriving agricultural activity, although besieged by the tower blocks of the suburbs. Its history is that of a long resistance to the inexorable progress of the city, but with a happy ending. The idea was to open the doors of the farmhouse, enriching the agricultural activity with a further value: the human experience of being together with other people of the same territory. The result was a new idea of park, later taken into consideration by the city institutions, which paved the path to a possible and innovative way of understanding the relationship between city and countryside, until a few years ago still only conflictual.

Marsh reeds and construction techniques for vegetal architecture

During the workshop a micro-architecture in Arundo donax canes will be realized where construction techniques with ligatures and joints will be applied. Connection and stiffening systems, infill and roofing with a single material will be experimented. The purpose of the laboratory is learning by doing in order to allow participants to proceed independently with all the phases. The botanical and silvicultural aspects will be understood to better use this plant before becoming a building material. To register to this workshop send an email to: workshop@ruraldesignweek.com or call +39 338 3554119 (Melania)

PRACTICES AND PROCESSES OF ECOSYSTEMIC REGENERATION OF RURAL AREAS

Session: Parks, laboratories of territorial co-planning Introduced by: Vincenzo D’Andrea (Consulta del Matese) Moderated by: Valentina Anzoise (Associazione Ru.De.Ri) Speakers: • Paduli. Multifunctional Agricultural Park (Mauro Lazzari, Laboratorio Urbano Aperto, LUA) • Acts of re-signification: agricultural bread and urban regeneration (Davide Longoni - Davide Longoni Farm and Marta Bertani & Andrea Perini - Terzo Paesaggio Association, Milan) • Geo-biodiversity of Madonie Park (Mario Cicero, Mayor of Castelbuono and National Vice President of Rete dei Borghi Autentici) Partecipate in the co-planning process: Parco and Consulta del Matese, citizens and local companies Moderated by: Pasquale Bonasora (Labsus Association) and Lucio Pascale (Amici di Pericle Association) Conclusions: Angelo Turco (IULM University, Milan)

Finissage

Finissage with rural aperitif and music